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Charles Marion Russell (1864-1926)
Lot 67

Charles Marion Russell (1864-1926)

A Strenuous Matinee

Closed23 May 2017

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Charles Marion Russell (1864-1926)
A Strenuous Matinee
signed with initials in monogram 'CMR' with artist's skull device (lower left)
ink, wash, gouache and pencil on paper
10 x 12 ¾ in. (25.4 x 32.4 cm.), image; 11 1/8 x 14 1/8 in. (28.2 x 35.9 cm.), overall
Executed circa 1904.

Charles J. Steedman, New York.
Private collection, Loveland, Colorado.
Christie’s, New York, 23 May 1990, lot 108b, sold by the above.
Acquired by the present owner from the above.

Specialist note

The present work has been assigned number CR.UNL.507 by the Charles M. Russell Catalogue Raisonné Committee.

This work was commissioned by Charles J. Steedman, the author of Bucking the Sage Brush, which was published in 1904 by G. Putnam & Sons.